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    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
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    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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  • Start Here!
    • Hi, I’m Aprille…
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    • The Story Behind the Header
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    • Top Ten Posts of All Time
    • Legalism and Grace: How I Left the IFB Movement and Chose Grace
    • Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith
    • Online Writing Portfolio
  • Marriage
    • Our Love Story
  • Faith
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    • Mothering Through Fatigue Blog Series
    • 20 Posts to Encourage Young New Moms
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    • Our final military deployment homecoming: finally together forever!
    • Homecoming 2009
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    • 31 Days of Preparing for VBAC {An Introduction}
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    Hormones & Fatigue: Part 1 – My Health & Weight History (and Update)

    / February 17, 2019 / 1 Comment

    Structuring my life and health AROUND my hormonal cycle is the only way I succeed at anything. I think I will always struggle with fatigue, anxiety, depression, weight management, and digestive issues. This doesn't…

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  • Grow in Grace 2016,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    Nourish: how I’ve grown in 2016 and my plans for 2017

    / December 31, 2016 / 4 Comments

    At the beginning of 2016, I felt like I was ready for forward momentum. For growth, for change. Now 2017 is upon me and I find myself asking this question: How do you…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood,  Personal and Spiritual Ramblings

    On forgiving my ever-changing body

    / September 12, 2014 / 2 Comments

    If motherhood has changed me (emotionally, spiritually, psychologically), does not my body also have the right to be changed by motherhood?

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  • Beauty in the Mess,  Birthdays,  Miscellaneous

    Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 02.28.13

    / February 28, 2013 / 4 Comments

    It's the last day of February, and I just got back from a week-long vacation. It's definitely time to start counting my blessings. Finding beauty in February of 2013!

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Miscellaneous

    Make March Matter

    / March 14, 2012 / 9 Comments

    I didn’t want to blog about this. But my husband encouraged it, so blog I will. A few days into March, I took my magnetic wipeoff board that hangs on the freezer and…

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  • Health, Wellness, & Self Care

    Answers

    / February 8, 2012 / 33 Comments

    In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. Author Unknown The Back Story For as long as I can remember, I have been plagued with many…

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    My Weight Loss Journey Thus Far

    / February 11, 2011 / 8 Comments

    “A time to get, and a time to lose…” (Ecclesiastes 3:6) For most of my adult life, my weight has fluctuated right around 100 pounds, regardless of how much I ate or how…

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  • Ezra,  Health, Wellness, & Self Care,  Motherhood

    Recovery Update ~ 4 weeks

    / October 5, 2010 / 1 Comment

    Today Ezra is 4 weeks old! He has grown immensely in the last month and is changing and acting more grown up every day…it’s astonishing! It took him about 2 1/2 weeks, but…

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